Sunday, 26 February 2012

Layering up

It's been longer that I'd hoped since my last post again, but progress has been made on a number of fronts. First of all I got a new camera to replace the one I broke the other week, so pictures are easily taken once more! Second of all I have finished putting together both sides of the quilt and have layered them up! Pins are everywhere and about two thirds of the tacking stitches that I think I need are in...

Overall the quilt top is beginning to look rather wrinkled now the pins and tacking is going in...

And on the back I decided to go symetrical and add the matching strip of plaid fabrics to the panel for the back.

Tacking is taking me a bit longer than I thought, so I won't get on to quilting this weekend. Wednesday is class day again, so I'll be making up my binding then I think so I'll be all organised for when the quilting is done. I've not decided exactly what to use for the binding though. I have more of the backing material, or I could use the plaids and other colourful bits and pieces I have left over from making the quilt top. I think I'm leaning to the later option just now. What do you think?